Films Quotes

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.

But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

What is it like when you see me in all these films and then you meet me? Were you intimidated?

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

I'm really drawn to European films.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful.

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.

People are always reading things into the films.

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.